CARLSBAD, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Callaway Golf (NYSE: ELY) Staff
Professional Jim Colbert and his partner teamed to successfully defend their
title at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf yesterday. Colbert and his
partner each used the Callaway Golf "Rule 35(R)" Firmfeel(TM) (red logo) ball
in their three-stroke victory. The same ball model was also used by the
second-place team of Callaway Golf Staff Professionals Bruce Fleisher and
David Graham, giving the "Rule 35" Firmfeel model sole ownership of the top
two spots on the event's leaderboard.
All four members of the top two teams at the Liberty Mutual Legends of
Golf -- an unofficial event that is a mainstay on the Senior PGA Tour schedule
-- also used drivers, fairway woods, irons and putters made by Callaway Golf.
Colbert, who recently won the SBC Senior Classic, used 13 Callaway Golf(R)
clubs, including a Big Bertha(R) Hawk Eye(R) VFT(TM) Titanium Driver, Big
Bertha Steelhead Plus(TM) 3-wood and 5-wood, Steelhead(R) X-14(R) Irons and an
Odyssey(R) White Hot(R) 7 Putter. His partner used 11 Callaway Golf clubs,
including a Hawk Eye VFT Pro Series Titanium Driver, Steelhead X-14 Pro Series
Irons and an Odyssey White Hot 5 Putter. The duo combined for a 20-under-par
124 in the rain-shortened 36-hole best-ball event, including a 59 in the
opening round.
Of the 20 players comprising the top 10 teams at this year's Liberty
Mutual Legends of Golf, 12 relied upon the exceptional combination of distance
and spin built into the "Rule 35" Firmfeel ball. The "Rule 35" ball was the
#2 ball in play at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.
Drivers made by Callaway Golf also had success on the PGA Tour yesterday,
as the winner of the BellSouth Classic used a Hawk Eye VFT Titanium Driver to
capture his first title since 1997. The winner survived a gusty 36-hole final
day, posting a driving distance average of 288.3 yards for the event.
Callaway Golf Staff Professional Charles Howell finished tied for sixth at the
event, his best PGA Tour finish of the season. Howell's driving distance
average for the event was 298 yards, and he earned $103,290 in the process.
Howell used 11 Callaway Golf clubs at the BellSouth Classic, including a Hawk
Eye VFT Pro Series Titanium Driver, a Steelhead Plus 4-wood, Steelhead X-14
Pro Series Irons and an Odyssey TriHot(TM) 3 Putter. Howell also used the
"Rule 35" Firmfeel ball model. Overall, three of the top 10 finishers at the
event used Hawk Eye VFT Titanium Drivers.
Overseas, the Big Bertha ERC(TM) II Forged Titanium Driver once again
enjoyed its highest PGA European Tour usage numbers of the year. A total of
50 golfers used an ERC II at the Open de Argentina, up from 47 at last week's
Sao Paulo Brazilian Open. Of the 50 golfers to put an ERC II in Argentina,
only two were Callaway Golf Staff Professionals -- meaning that the other
48 chose to play the ERC II without financial incentive. For the year, the
ERC II is the most-played single driver model on the PGA European Tour, and
Callaway Golf is the most-played driver brand on the tour.
Callaway Golf Company makes and sells Big Bertha(R) Metal Woods and Irons,
including Big Bertha ERC(TM) II Forged Titanium Drivers, Big Bertha Hawk
Eye(R) VFT(TM) and Big Bertha Hawk Eye VFT Pro Series Titanium Drivers and
Fairway Woods, Big Bertha Steelhead Plus(TM) Stainless Steel Drivers and
Fairway Woods, Hawk Eye Tungsten Injected(TM) Titanium Irons, Steelhead(TM)
X-14(R) and Steelhead X-14 Pro Series Stainless Steel Irons. Callaway Golf
Company also makes and sells Odyssey(R) Putters, including White Hot(R),
TriHot(TM), and Dual Force(R) Putters. Callaway Golf Company makes and sells
the Callaway Golf(R) "Rule 35(R)" Firmfeel(TM) and Softfeel(TM) golf balls,
and the CB1(TM) Red and CB1 Blue golf balls. For more information about
Callaway Golf Company, please visit our Web sites at http://www.callawaygolf.com,
http://www.callawaygolfball.com and http://www.odysseygolf.com.
SOURCE Callaway Golf
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